Archives for
April 2010

Two days ago, several of the popular Hitler Downfall parody videos were pulled from YouTube because owner Constantin Films claimed they infringed on the copyright. YouTube indirectly responded on its blog today by encouraging its users to dispute the...

Oh, man, it's just like one of those treacle-soaked romantic comedies: When one couple found themselves stranded in Dubai due to a pesky case of volcanic ash, they improvised and got married anyway... via Skype. Brit Sean Murtagh, 24, and 30-year-old...

Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying. Hundreds of thousands of travelers scrambled to find alternative modes of transportation, last minute hotel bookings and even home-s...

As Kermit once wisely said, it isn't easy being green, especially if you're really into your gadgets, but recycling old products and buying new ones with an eye on eco is something we should all be doing. To help you out of your consumer vs. conscien...

If you've been wondering how Valve's digital game distribution service Steam for Mac will compare to its original Windows implementation, wait no longer. A video demonstrating Steam for the Mac has been leaked onto that provincial little backyard kno...

Lisa Kudrow of Friends fame can thank her stint as a web TV star for her next big return to the small screen. Web Therapy -- an accredited web series she created and stars in -- has been picked up by Showtime. Digital Spy reports that that the 45 ten...

The promise of virtual currency has proved an effective way to get users to engage with their friends in social games like FarmVille and Mafia Wars. Now, Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online – the web-based version of the popular console game from Electronic ...

The YouTube Store has a much more impressive library than it did during its January trial period, including a few classics like Reservoir Dogs and recent critical hit Precious. The Cove — one of the original five — is currently the most popular film ...

Since the earliest days of the Internet entrepreneur, there have been vast shifts in ideologies about what makes for a successful online business. These shifts have been predicated by thought leaders who challenge our attitudes about financing, devel...

Over the last few months, there has a massive amount of hype surrounding the geolocation war between Foursquare and Gowalla, two of the biggest players in the space. The intensity reached critical mass during this year's South by Southwest (SXSW) con...

Yesterday at DrupalCon, representatives of WhiteHouse.gov announced they are making modules of Drupal code they have developed and customized open source, i.e. are giving them away free of charge. Drupal itself is an open source project and one of th...

We've seen iPads and cats go viral. We've seen iPads and dogs go viral. But the latest iPad YouTube sensation is far more special: It depicts how the device has changed one 99-year-old woman's life. 99-year-old Virgina Cambell of Lake Oswego, Oregon ...

With the launch of a universal "Like" button, Facebook seems set to own both our social graph and a map of our interests. In one fell swoop, the company may have wounded the popularity of Twitter's retweets and built a personalization engine that all...

Although YouTube's birthday is officially February 14, 2005, the first video was actually uploaded to the site exactly five years ago, on April 23, 2005. The video is titled "Me at the zoo." It was shot by Yakov Lapitsky and it's only 19 seconds long...

If you lose an iPhone - especially a next generation iPhone prototype - does that make you an iPhone loser? Cruel puns aside (we're sure that Gray Powell, the Apple employee who misplaced the phone at a German beer bar in California, has heard a fair...

When it comes to smartphones in Japan, the market has changed drastically in the last year. Approximately one year ago, Wired wrote that the Japanese hated the iPhone. Three months later, a survey showed that the iPhone was the top selling smartphone...

Brooklyn indie band The National fell victim to the wide world of Internet music piracy this week when a low quality leak of their first album in three years, High Violet, was spilled onto the web. Instead of getting mad, the band got creative: Today...

Jeremy Richardson heads up Business Development at Mixpanel, Inc. a real-time analytics service that helps companies understand how users behave with web applications. Everyone in social media knows that virality is the number one metric to track if ...

Update: Blippy has explained how the credit card numbers ended up in Google. Sharing your credit card and online purchases with friends on the web sounds risky and it is. We've just discovered that several credit card transactions shared on social ne...

Facebook and the purloined next generation iPhone were undoubtedly the topics on everyone's quivering lips this week, but some other stuff went down as well: Google got called out on privacy issues, people remained stranded due to volcanic ash, some ...

Twitter has acquired Cloudhopper, a software startup that powers SMS and MMS campaigns. The company revealed in an announcement that it has been looking to scale its SMS operations, as Twitter now processes nearly 1 billion tweets per month. Cloudhop...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Video can be a very powerful tool for businesses of any size, but YouTube'...

A hacker who calls himself Kirllos has obtained and is now offering to sell 1.5 million Facebook IDs at astonishingly low prices -- $25 per 1000 IDs for users with fewer than 10 friends and $45 per 1000 IDs for users with more than 10 friends -- acco...

This post is part of Mashable's Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Na...

This morning we learned that some users of purchase sharing site Blippy had their credit card numbers exposed in Google search results. The company is now out with their official statement on the matter in an attempt to assure users that "it's a lot ...

If you're not a fan of the Twilight series of films, you might want to retreat to another corner of the Internet for a while, because the final trailer for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is now online. The trailer made its debut on The Oprah Winfrey Show...

It hasn't even been two months since Conan O'Brien joined Twitter, but now the former Tonight Show show host is dropping in on Twitter HQ like he's part of the family. Twitter employees are now tweeting en-masse about the funnyman's visit to Twitter'...

It's pretty amazing that the YouTube well continues to flow so freely, isn't it? After five years (Happy Birthday, first YT video!), the video-sharing site is still alive and kicking. Here's some of our favorite kick-ass vids from this week's store o...

We had a chance to sit down with Forrester Research CEO George Colony at this year's Forrester Marketing Forum to talk about whether or not CEOs should be engaged in social media. His morning keynote talk, "The Social CEO?", presented a number of per...

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